James thomas foster



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,J. T. FOSTER.

SPOOL HOLDER. I No. .439.136;- Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

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- and forming a trough-shaped holder.

JAMES THOMAS FOSTER, OF W'ITHINGTON, ENGLAND.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,136, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed March 13, 1890. Serial No. 343,718.

(No model.) Patented in England August 31,

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES THOMAS FOSTER, of Withington, in the county of Lancaster, England, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Spool-Holders, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 13,754, dated August 31, 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding a series of spools, bobbins, or reels of sewing cotton, silk, or other material; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the spool-holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view; and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, showing a spool in position. A is a thin plate of card-board or metal having sides a bent up at right angles thereto Holes 1) are formed in the sides a, and each hole is provided with a tubular eyelet b when the holder is made of card-board or paper.

G is a pivot-lace for supporting the spools c. This lace maybe made of textile fabric, hempen cord, metallic wire, or other similar and suitable material. This lace is passed through the two end holes, and thence along the outside of the holder and through the two next holes, the two portions of the lace crossing each other in the center of the spool. The lace is passed in a similar manner through all the holes, and has its extreme ends secured together at the other end of the holder. It

will be seen that as the lace crosses itselfit does not make round pivots for the spools, and that those portions d of the lace close to the eyelets are adapted to bear against the opposite edges of the ordinary round holes 0 in the spools, so that although'the spools may revolve upon the lace they are prevented from unwinding too rapidly when the ends of the threads wound upon them are pulled.

The outer surface of the holder may be ornamented in any approved manner, and may have advertisements or other printed information displayed upon it.

The eyelet-holes are rather larger than the ordinary holes in the spools, so that the lace will bear against the opposite sides of the holes at each end of the spools with a slight tension, the object being to prevent the spools from revolving too freely.

What I claim is- In a spool-holder, the combination, with a trouglishaped frame having parallel side walls and a series of oppositely-arranged holes in said walls, of a spool-support consisting of a flexible lace passed twice through said holes from opposite directions, crossed centrally of the frame between the holes, and secured to the frame under tension, whereby said support may bear against the opposite sides of each of the holes in the spools, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature to the foregoing specification.

JAMES THOMAS FOSTER.

Witnesses:

WALTER GUNN, JOHN G. WILSON. 

